These hardships included the forced lying about the ship’s living conditions‚ being sold as an indentured servant to local gentry and the separation of families. Once they had arrived in PA‚ immigrants were forced to lie about the ship’s hovels‚ which included dauntingly poor living conditions. The soul-seller did not know if it was in the immigrant’s’
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Famine seemed to take over colonial Virginia. Indentured servants and slaves are what helped save Virginia during these hardships. In Virginia‚ indentured servantry was very common. The indentured servants had to work hard both night and day for a mess of water gruel and a mouthful of bread. Document D is written by an indentured servant. He tells that he would much rather be in England‚ even without a limb‚ than to be where he is now. Indentured servants chose to be what they were because of what
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October 2‚ 2013 The Infortunate William Moraley Edited by: Susan E. Klepp & Billy G. Smith The Infortunate is an autobiography about the life of an indentured servant in the 1700’s. In his story‚ William Moraley talks about the jobs he once performed as a young man which included working as a clerk attorney‚ and then later learning the skill of watch making from Henry May by the age of seventeen. (Klepp and Smith‚ pg 8-9). About ten years later‚ Moraley’s family moved to
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source who could work their land‚ known as indentured servants. There was a contract binding a servant to a land owner in the colonies‚ allowing him to come to the new world if he worked a certain amount of years‚ and in return the servant would receive land of his own. [Document C] This effort was made a lot of farm owners tons of money‚ even though they had to pay for the passage of their indentured servants‚ they acquired fifty acres of land for every servant and it was a cheap labor source. There
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Chesapeake region‚ slaves were kind of treated like indentured servants. They were granted freedom at a certain point in time‚ whereas slaves in the nineteenth-century were almost never granted freedom by their owners and were treated as property rather than humans due to things like rebellions (such as Shay’s Rebellion or Bacon’s Rebellion). In the early 17th century‚ slavery was not yet established. Whites would treat slaves and indentured servants almost equally and they weren’t as cruel with them
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During the late 16th century and into the 17th century‚ two colonies emerged from England in the New World. The two colonies were called the Chesapeake and New England colonies. Even though the two areas were formed and governed by the English‚ the colonies had similarities as well as differences. Differences in geography‚ religion‚ politics‚ economic‚ and nationalities‚ were responsible for molding the colonies. These differences came from one major factor: the very reason the English settlers came
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Groups migrated more often to the northern colonies tans to the southern bringing more women with them 2. Virginia’s seventeenth century ratio was three males to each female 3. Majority of women who arrived in the cheasapake were unmarried servants 4. While southern colonies reverted to a more even sex ratio‚ British
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surged from 200‚000 pound in 1624 to 3‚000‚000 in 1638 and the Chesapeake became its largest exporter surpassing the West Indies. With the increase in product also came with the increase in needs of labor. Many colonist came to Chesapeake as indentured servants to work the
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producing a single crop economy. The large plantations provided landowners or tobacco growers with cheap and plentiful labor through the use of slaves and indentured servants. In document C‚ the passengers aboard the ship bound for Virginia are all mostly made up of single men well below the age of 40‚ showing that many are probably indentured servants who are going to work in the large plantations. By the 1660s the overproduction of tobacco dramatically decreased tobacco prices causing indigo and rice
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found the endless cycle of poverty. Although few made gains‚ many‚ like Richard Frethorne‚ were left impoverish and destitute. Frethorne’s letter supported Hofstadter’s adverse views on indentured servitude in three main criteria: the disappointment of the New World‚ the inescapably torturous life of an indentured servant‚ and the countless deaths that diffused throughout the journey. The life in America came with many hardships; many of which people couldn’t even dream of.
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